[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09-07-2003 12:37:29 PM:

> Hi,
> 
> They obviously set things so I could not reboot or find out what is 
going
> on.  The first thing I discovered was that they had change the 
index.html
> file on the web server - I thought something had gone astray so rebooted 
and
> that is when it all started.
> 
> I never surfed the net as root....and thought I had the box locked down 
-
> only open ports were the normal ones (80, 21, 22) etc.  I have no idea 
how
> they got in but maybe it was through SSH (I might have a older version 
that
> could be hacked).  There was no telnet or anything like that.
> 
I would have thought the more likely culprit would either be your 
webserver, or ftp server.
Check the security advisories released after the versions you are running.

Cheers,

Scott
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